College freshman Dau Jok has vivid recollections of the day his father was murdered.

In 1979 another acclaimed celebrity from the entertainment industry was selected and confirmed as the commencement speaker: Tennessee Williams. It was the first time students were involved in the selection process.

Brian Crandall was about to enter a Tokyo subway station on the afternoon of March 11 when the ground began to shake and he saw some people run up the stairs.

As college basketball fans across the country fill out their NCAA brackets, Penn students are unable to pick their Quakers. But in 1979, Penn was far from excluded from the tournament.

The debate, held at Drexel's Creese Student Center, aimed to target the reasons behind an increasing number of abortions among minorities and its effect on minority communities.

In the wake of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake — the largest in Japan’s history — and an ensuing tsunami, no injuries to the Penn community abroad were reported as of Sunday night.

The Alpha Beta chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha accepted its first pledge class of 150 girls in February since being re-established on Penn’s campus. In 1991, a similar process was taking place this time of year but for Pi Beta Phi, a sorority that no longer exists at Penn.

The McDonald’s on the northeast corner of 40th and Walnut is one of the few things that hasn’t moved or left over the past few decades, but Penn officials would like to change that.

The Latino Coalition has been working to make sure that future applicants have the resources to overcome language barriers when applying for financial aid.

Today's tuition figures are starkly different from those of the 1958-59 school year, when undergraduate tuition was $1,000, and total expenses were around $2,000.

1953 College graduate Edward Netter, namesake and benefactor of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, died last Wednesday at 78.

“‘I’m really confused about what the whole point is — sex? Commitment? Marriage? Fun?’” The lede to Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Bama Athreya’s 1988 column could easily be a text on anyone’s phone in 2011.

Now more than ever, students are feeling the pressure — and this isn’t the first time The Daily Pennsylvanian has made this claim.

Phi Kappa Sigma’s charter has been suspended by its national headquarters, barring the fraternity from holding activities or recruiting new members this semester.

In 1986, the mean undergraduate grade point average at Penn was 3.10 — a figure The Daily Pennsylvanian pointed to as grade inflation that made “traditional definitions of letter grades obsolete.”

The Blizzard of ’96 blanketed the Philadelphia area in 40 inches of snow, with snow drifts of over four feet. Then-Executive Vice President John Fry closed campus Monday and Tuesday that week.

Last night, more than 150 enthusiastic Penn students and community members packed into Huntsman Hall to view President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address as part of a joint event hosted by the Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans.